Veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that Rohit Sharma’s form is a concern after he faced twin failures in the recently concluded second Test of the BorderGavaskar Trophy 2024-25 as well. He added that the Indian skipper has a huge past but has struggled in the last few Tests as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “We didn’t lose because of Rohit’s captaincy. I have criticized where it was required but you didn’t lose because of that reason. You have to score runs in batting, which you didn’t do in both innings. As a team, you didn’t bat 80 overs. How will you win if you don’t do that? However, there is a question about Rohit Sharma’s form for sure.”

“Let’s start with Bangladesh. It’s been 12 innings and he has scored just one fifty. That fifty came in the second innings in Bengaluru. He batted well there, but he has not looked very good here also. The past is incredible, but the current form is not going in favour of Rohit Sharma,” Chopra further added.

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In the same video, Aakash Chopra also added that form wasn’t the reason behind Rohit Sharma batting in the middle order in both innings of the pink-ball Test in Adelaide as well.

“He came to bat down the order. Generally, when you are going upwards in your career, you go up in the batting order when you are struggling for form slightly. However, when you are on a slight decline, you go downwards in the batting order. Let’s be fair, his form had nothing to do with his batting order in this instance. It was to accommodate Rahul at the top,” he said.

“The truth is that when he came down the order, he didn’t look very good. The incoming ball got him out, and then he missed the outside edge. It’s happening very regularly. He is a touch player, an eye-hand coordination player. With such players, as you grow older, sometimes the reflexes become a little slower,” Aakash Chopra concluded.